{"id":203913,"date":"2026-04-20T22:22:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203913\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T22:22:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:22:53","slug":"spear-street-capital-acquires-office-property-at-74-eighth-avenue-for-51m-commercial-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203913\/","title":{"rendered":"Spear Street Capital Acquires Office Property at 74 Eighth Avenue for $51M \u2013 Commercial Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/spear-street-capital\/\" title=\"Spear Street Capital\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spear Street Capital<\/a>, an operator of office properties in the U.S., Canada and Europe, has purchased a 10-story office building in Manhattan\u2019s West Village for $50.5 million, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/a836-acris.nyc.gov\/DS\/DocumentSearch\/DocumentDetail?doc_id=2026041300250001\">property records made public Friday show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco-based Spear Street, using the entity 76 8th Avenue Owner, bought the office property at 74 Eighth Avenue \u2014 also known as 74-76 Eighth Avenue \u2014 from New York-based investment firm <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/g4-capital-partners\/\" title=\"G4 Capital Partners\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">G4 Capital Partners<\/a>, which used the entity 76 8th Ave, according to records.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/04\/blue-owl-capital-sila-realty-trust-acquisition\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Owl Capital to Acquire Health Care REIT Sila Realty Trust in $2.4B Deal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spear Street CEO John Grassi signed the deal for the buyer, while Jason Behfarin, a co-founder and co-managing partner at G4 Capital, signed for the seller, records show.<\/p>\n<p>The office property on the corner of Eighth Avenue and West 14th Street was recently completed in 2023 by developers Sang Lee, <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/noviprop\/\" title=\"Noviprop\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noviprop<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/plus-development\/\" title=\"Plus Development\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plus Development<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/newyorkyimby.com\/2023\/01\/76-eighth-avenue-completes-construction-in-greenwich-village-manhattan.html\">New York YIMBY reported<\/a>. The building was designed by Gene Kaufman Architect and contains 30,000 square feet of office space and ground-floor retail space. Wells Fargo Bank is currently in the property\u2019s retail area.<\/p>\n<p>The building was last sold by Chun Woo Realty in 2019 for $18 million, according to property records.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Spokespeople for Spear Street Capital and G4 Capital Partners did not immediately respond to Commercial Observer\u2019s requests for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>News of the new deal comes after Manhattan saw its <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/04\/manhattan-strongest-quarter-property-sales-avison-young\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">strongest quarter of property sales<\/a> since 2021 during the first quarter of 2026, according to research from Avison Young. The office market captured most of that capital in the first quarter, with $1.8 billion in total dollar volume across 22 sales.<\/p>\n<p>Other recent office property deals in Manhattan included 4 West 43rd Street near Bryant Park, <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/04\/new-empire-corporation-contract-buy-4-west-43rd-street\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which sold for $51 million<\/a> last week; 250 West 57th Street, which is soon <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/04\/esrt-sale-250-west-57th-street-namdar-realty-group\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">selling for $280 million<\/a>; and 555-557 Broadway, <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2025\/12\/esrt-acquires-555-557-broadway-from-scholastic-for-386m\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which sold<\/a> for $386 million in December.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Schiavo can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/04\/spear-street-capital-74-eighth-ave-g4-capital-partners\/mailto:aschiavo@commercialobserver.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">aschiavo@commercialobserver.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spear Street Capital, an operator of office properties in the U.S., Canada and Europe, has purchased a 10-story&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[80664,80665,80666,98,100,99,2664,80667,80668,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-203913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-74-eighth-avenue","9":"tag-74-76-eighth-avenue","10":"tag-76-eighth-avenue","11":"tag-brooklyn","12":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","13":"tag-brooklyn-news","14":"tag-investments-sales","15":"tag-jason-behfarin","16":"tag-john-grassi-channel","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}